A vision led by finance. Technical leadership to recruit.

Kayphas is explicit about its current stage: the founder brings financial and industrial strategy; the next critical capability is experienced scientific leadership.

Founder

Fetra RANDRIANAVONY

Founder · General management

Structuring an industrial ambition with evidence discipline.

Fetra has more than 13 years of progressive experience in corporate finance, audit, multi-currency treasury, internal control and reporting, including within an international construction and mining group and at PwC.

At Kayphas, he leads strategy, financial structuring, partnerships and team formation. He is seeking a technical co-founder able to lead the scientific and experimental programme.

Financial strategyIFRS / IASInternal controlTreasuryProject structuring

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Founding role sought

Technical co-founder or CTO.

This role is not intended to endorse a fixed technology. It must challenge the architecture, define experiments and decide with the founder which branches to pursue or stop.

Core expertise

Electrochemistry, battery materials, solid electrolytes or process engineering.

Experience

Design of experiments, cell assembly, characterization and lab-to-pilot scale-up.

Leadership

Recruit a team, manage laboratories and suppliers, communicate with non-technical partners.

Mindset

Scientific rigor, ability to say no, documentation and safety culture.

Location

Ability to collaborate with Madagascar and international partners, remotely and on site as required by the programme; mobility and terms to be structured.

Initial mandate

Define the protocol, select the laboratory and lead the first proof.

Express interest

Governance

A legal structure still open to comparison.

Pre-incorporation

Current status

Kayphas is not yet incorporated. The founder currently acts on behalf of the venture in formation.

Hypothesis

North American hypothesis, decision still open

A North American parent structure associated with a Malagasy operating entity is the current working hypothesis. Jurisdictions, intermediate entities and the final architecture remain to be compared with other international alternatives based on access to financing, intellectual property, tax, governance, local substance, immigration and compliance costs.

Before decision

Criteria

Financing, intellectual property, tax, immigration, grants, local substance, governance and compliance costs.

Principles

Evidence

Systematically separate analysis, hypothesis, target and measured result.

Progression

Commit capital and complexity only after decision gates are passed.

Partnership

Build with existing expertise before seeking to internalize everything.

Responsibility

Connect traceability, safety, environment and local contribution to every decision.